Geometrician’s views Erasmus Project

Project Title

Geometrician’s views

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

When you look at the stars, when you look at the moon, you wonder what that is. Would you say that the moon is a circle ? Would you say that the railways are two straight lines or even a set of Bezier lines ? If you answer positive to those question, then you might as well be a geometrician…

The origin of geometry lies in the study and measurement of the earth and the universe. Geometry is more than just a collection of tools, than an abstract discipline : it is our way of classifying shapes and things, it it our way of looking at the world.

The objective of our project is to enable people to discover mathematical culture through the artistic and scientific world.

We target students from kindergarten level up to high school.

A number of classes will be involved in our project activities. Each class is to produce an artistic or digital production (computer graphics, digital application, animated film, frame, sculpture, play, virtual museum, augmented image, 360° guided tour (Vizor), digital book, comic book, short story, …), which will display the pupils’ view of the chosen theme. There are 60 themes available to the students, which in turn are divided into three sub-themes.

Objects, instruments: Curves, Spirals, Surfaces, Spheres and balls, Polyhedrons, Balls and balloons, Fractals, Crystals, Shells, Domes, Knots, Astrolabe, Abaque, Soap bubbles, Darkroom, Pendulums, Hypercube, Design, Mirrors, Pantograph.

Scientific and artistic fields:

Astronomy, Cartography, Relief, Architecture, Urbanism, Music, Choreography, Typography, Calligraphy, Paintings and Engravings, Statues, Gardens, Labyrinths, Light, 3D Printing, Pixel Art, Augmented Reality, Braids, Interlacing, 3D Animation, Trajectory, Cubism

Representations and transformations:

Friezes, Paving, Tomography, Perspective, Illusions, Networks, Coloring, Origami, Puzzles, Space-time, Measurement and Plotting

Coordinates, Computer Graphics, Digital Acquisition and Imaging, Voxels, Meshes, Graphs, Patterns, Anamorphosis, Silhouette, Shadow, Projection

Each item produced by the students will need to relate clearly to one or more artistic fields: poetry and literature, architecture, sculpture, painting and drawing, music, poetry and literature, architecture, sculpture, painting and drawing, music, “performing arts”: dance, mime, theater and circus, film, “media arts”: broadcasting, television and photography, comics, digital, culinary arts, model making, fashion….

The works of the students will constitute an exhibition. For this purpose, each artistic work is accompanied by an explanatory sheet edited by the students themselves, and outlining the mathematical and artistic import of each production. The teacher in charge of supervising a given work will also be able to express his/her understanding of the topics within the explanatory sheet.

We foresee two multiplier events as part of our project. These will be an occasion for the students to present their works. Overall, 60 exhibits will be showcased during these events, which is all the exhibits produced across the lifetime of the partnership. The audience will also have the opportunity to explore the virtual museum based on the Neotrie software and hardware for virtual reality, as well as the pedagogical ressources guide enabling anyone to engage their students in transdisciplinary work across arts and maths.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 148811 Eur

Project Coordinator

Les Maths En Scene & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Geniko Lykeio Proastiou Karditsas
• Istituto Comprensivo 14 Perugia
• Srednja skola Novska
• Colegiul Tehnic Ioan Ciordas
• Osnovna i srednja skola sa domom ucenika Petro Kuzmjak
• Virtual Dor Sociedad Limitada